How to request an account

If you will be using Lumen Learning’s online homework platform (OHM) for auto graded assessments in your math, stats, physics, or accounting course, you will need an instructor account. You may either go to this link: https://www.lumenlearning.com/what/ohm/

and follow the process described for requesting an account, or you can email ost@geneseo.edu and include the email and username you wish to associate with your account.  Please note that your password will be auto-generated and you will need to change it upon login.

What is OHM?

OHM is the online homework platform used by Lumen Learning to deliver auto-graded assessments. Lumen offers individualized support to institutions for course customization, LMS integration, and scaled adoption of OER math content.

OHM can be used as a standalone LMS, or can be integrated into Blackboard, Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle, and Sakai.  Gradebook features include the ability to record offline grades, use weighted categories for calculating final course grades, and individual management of student scores. Currently, grade return is only provided for Moodle, Canvas, and Blackboard.

Key Features

OHM houses several template courses that can be copied and customized to your department and student’s needs. Courses include algebra, precalculus, college algebra, Calculus, math for liberal arts, and introductory statistics.

Customization is easy with OHM’s flexible platform for creating assessments from our library of 10,000+ questions and videos, access to some of the most widely used math OER texts, and features such as discussion boards and email system.

Many math and accounting departments with a large staff of adjunct faculty have realized the benefit of using MyOpenMath as a way to manage and deliver content. It is easy to build a template course that can be copied either through the LMS or MyOpenMath. We hope you will soon realize how much MyOpenMath has to offer your department or classroom.

User Types

Guest – no information is saved when assessments are taken, used to preview features in MyOpenMath from a student perspective.

Student – user id and password required, grade information saved, can enroll in many courses at once if necessary, can only see personal data, can post to forums as designated by instructor.

Teacher – Can access student grade and activity information, but cannot change information in course. Has access to the faculty forums in the support course.

Limited Course Creator – Access student data, create courses, can designate group and global course templates, can create diagnostics.

Group Admin – can view and edit courses owned by anyone in the group, edit questions owned by anyone in the group, can create diagnostics.

Full Admin – can access any course and student data in MOM, can edit any question in the question library, can create LTI credentials, can approve accounts.  There are 5 people with these rights.

Why Pay For Something You Can Get on the Internet Free?

MyOpenMath is another great online homework platform that is free and open to anyone. However, OHM offers features that address privacy concerns, as well as make your life easier:

1) Connection: Lumen’s support team could have a more interactive relationship with your department, understanding your needs and mapping those into the system enhancements as well as providing insight into resources and materials for other courses you may want to transition to open.

2) Features: There are several services that we can enable for your department. Lumen can integrate OHM with Blackboard to automatically pass grades back into the Blackboard gradebook. We can also provide a model to easily create and replicate courses for large numbers of instructors, which institutions find particularly helpful in managing course preparation for adjuncts.

3) Support Guarantees: As you become more dependent on an online homework system it will be reassuring to know that someone is “on the hook” to meet your needs. Ever accidentally delete something you really needed?  Lumen customers can have accidentally-deleted student data retrieved, whereas users of the “free” platform don’t have this level of support.